Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastman, the grey, lean, bespectacled Kodak man, moving about the town. He is a delegate-at-large from New York. Leading the New York delegation is distinguished-looking Charles Dewey Hilles who was President Taft's secretary and later a big insurance man who felt "too poor" to accept proffered Ambassadorships. Mr. Hilles clings to the Coolidge-anyway idea...
...great deal of publicity has been given the two students in American universities who recently turned down Phi Beta Kappa keys and the result has been much talk and speculation among students and others as to their reasons for refusing to accept an honor so great...
...sweeping majority. He was the famed Rev. Eli Stanley Jones, missionary in India and author of The Christ of the Indian Road. No sooner had he received this honor, ultimate for any Methodist and seldom given to a man only 44 years old, than Dr. Jones declined to accept it. Said...
...want people to think me pretentious, but I have received such high tokens already, for example, the Golden Plaque for Art, given me recently by the King of Denmark, that I am not able to accept inferior decorations...
...course editors will frequently not accept this advice. That must be expected. Sometimes I am afraid events will prove that they are right in not accepting it, that they are wiser than the adviser. In any case, they should be free to accept or reject it as they choose with the understanding that they accept full responsibility for the outcome...